Abstract
Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between cholelithiasis and developing sialolithiasis using a population-based coverage database. Methods: The data for this study were sourced from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database. We included 745 subjects with sialolithiasis as cases and 3725 sex-matched and age-matched subjects without sialolithiasis as controls. Results: Chi-square test revealed a significant difference in the prevalence of prior cholelithiasis between the cases and controls (8.6% vs 4.1%; p
Original language | English |
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Journal | Head and Neck |
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Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Case-control study
- Cholelithiasis
- Epidemiology
- Salivary gland
- Sialolithiasis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Otorhinolaryngology